Chapter 327

Lu Zhenghong said, "Maybe I can't eat here today. Time is too tight, and I still want to run to a few more villages. Next time I come specifically, I will eat here with you again."

Fang Youcai said with some regret, "That's really a pity. Next time you come, we will definitely take out the best things in our home to entertain our distinguished guests."

The two talked and laughed. The officials accompanying them behind looked at each other. So Lu Zhenghong had been here before he became Secretary-General. Then they were old acquaintances.

Lu Zhenghong talked to Zhao Zhongfu and the others for a while. He caught sight of the bookshelves in the conference room. Those bamboo-woven bookshelves attracted his attention. He couldn't help but walk in, pull a book from the bookshelf, and flip through it.

Everyone followed him in. Although the conference room was not small, it still seemed a bit crowded with so many people going in.

Lu Zhenghong looked around at those bookshelves and asked, "Is this the reading room you set up? I don't seem to have seen it when I came last time. Whose idea is this?"

Fang Youcai said, "This is the idea Township Head Su gave us. He said that after the village's economic situation gets better, setting up a reading room can enrich the villagers' spare-time cultural life, and also let everyone learn more knowledge, better build our hometown, and better build spiritual civilization."

Lu Zhenghong said, "Is it just your village that set up a reading room?"

Fang Youcai said, "Every village in the township has set up a reading room."

Lu Zhenghong looked at Su Xinghui with an approving look, and then said, "Good, this idea is very good. Our Meng Hu Ling Township is a pilot unit for province-wide agricultural reform. This agricultural reform is not only about building material civilization, but also building spiritual civilization. Only by grasping both material civilization and spiritual civilization, and making both hands hard, is this a new socialist countryside!"

The reporters wrote furiously, recording Lu Zhenghong's words. The photographers also pressed the shutter frequently, taking pictures of Lu Zhenghong standing in front of the bookshelves. At this time, what Lu Zhenghong said were all leader instructions, and not a single word could be missed.

Lu Zhenghong turned to the regional and county leaders behind him and said, "Since everyone followed me here today, take a good look at what direction our rural reform should proceed in. I think that in the future, the whole Shangjun County, the whole Yulin region, and even the whole Hudong province should learn from Meng Hu Ling."

Those regional and county leaders all nodded.

Lu Zhenghong smiled, "This reading room is very well run. This is the result of their spiritual civilization construction. Next, let's go see the results of their material civilization construction."

Everyone followed Lu Zhenghong towards the special breeding farm. Lu Zhenghong had been here once, so he knew very well where the breeding farm was built. He didn't need anyone to lead the way and arrived at the special breeding farm.

The special breeding farm was a scene of flourishing livestock. Lu Zhenghong walked into the breeding farm and asked Fang Youcai and Zhao Zhongfu some questions casually, such as how much the breeding farm's monthly output was, how much the sales volume was, how much the net profit was, and how much income it could bring to the villagers in the village, etc.

Fang Youcai and Zhao Zhongfu had also done their homework in advance. They answered Lu Zhenghong's questions fluently, making Lu Zhenghong very satisfied.

What Lu Zhenghong was satisfied with was not only that they could answer questions fluently, but that this breeding farm could bring considerable income to the villagers, and with the expansion of the breeding scale, it could bring more income in the future.

Many of those regional and county leaders were seeing this breeding farm for the first time. They didn't expect that in the most backward and remote township in Shangjun County, such a large-scale special breeding farm had been set up, and it could create so much profit every year. This made them click their tongues in wonder.

It's not that no one had seen the article published in "Yulin Daily" and "Hudong Daily", but for them, it was just the kind of article singing praises that was common in newspapers, and it wouldn't make them pay too much attention. They didn't expect that what was written in that article had actually happened.

After seeing the breeding farm, Lu Zhenghong, led by Fang Youcai and others, went to the Eucommia nursery base. He was also very interested in this Eucommia protection forest. This was the first Eucommia protection forest in the province. Not only could it bring considerable economic benefits to Meng Hu Ling in more than a decade, but the social benefits it brought could not be underestimated.

This was an artificial protection forest for a national first-class rare plant. As long as it successfully becomes a forest in the future, it will have great influence not only within the province, but also within the country and even the whole world.

Arriving at the nursery base, Luo Ping was checking the production situation of the seedlings with several of his graduate students and some villagers. Fang Youcai shouted from afar, "Professor Luo, Professor Luo!"

Luo Ping saw so many people coming, so he led people out from between the rows of seedlings. Fang Youcai introduced him, "Professor Luo, this is Secretary-General Lu from the Provincial Party Committee. He is here to inspect our place. Please introduce the situation of the nursery base to him."

As soon as Luo Ping heard that this was the Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee, he nodded to him and said, "Secretary-General, what information do you want to know?"

Lu Zhenghong asked him about some situations of the nursery base in a kind manner. Luo Ping answered one by one. Finally, he said excitedly, "Secretary-General, we are very confident in building this place into the largest Eucommia protection forest base in the country within five years."

Lu Zhenghong nodded happily, "Very good, you have worked hard!"

Luo Ping smiled, "We don't feel hard at all. On the contrary, we have discovered so many rare plants in Meng Hu Ling. This is a natural treasure house. Being able to do research here, we only feel happy."

Hearing Luo Ping's words, everyone laughed loudly. Only these scientific researchers who specialize in plants would find happiness in bitterness like this!

At this time, several people walked over from the hillside. When they got closer, Lu Zhenghong shouted in surprise, "Brother Ziqing, why are you here too?"

It turned out that the people walking over were Qu Ziqing, Chen Hanxiu, Xia Zhu, and two local old farmers. At this time, Qu Ziqing also saw Lu Zhenghong, and he also shouted, "It's Secretary-General Lu!"

Lu Zhenghong stepped forward and held his hand, "Brother Ziqing, don't call me that. Why did you come here too?"

Qu Ziqing said, "Isn't it because the province wants to hold a calligraphy and painting exhibition on the achievements of the province's reform and opening up and economic construction? We also received the task and have to submit works, so we came here to sketch, collect material, and find inspiration!"

Lu Zhenghong was a bit puzzled, "Then why come to Meng Hu Ling?"

Qu Ziqing pointed to Su Xinghui and said, "During the New Year, we met Little Su in Jiangcheng. His calligraphy is good, and his painting is also very good, so we got along very well with him. He invited us to come to Meng Hu Ling to play when we had time, so this time we took the opportunity to come here!"

Lu Zhenghong laughed loudly, "So it's because of this kid again. Hmm, not bad, this kid's calligraphy and painting are both very good. I saw them and liked them very much, no wonder you got along with him. Otherwise, we wouldn't have bumped into each other here so coincidentally."